'A strange mystification, wasn't it?' said Lady Kirkbank, almost frightened at the awful look in Lesbia's face, which was even worse than Belle Trinder's expression when she read the announcement of Mr. Smithson's flight.

That pale face, with its tint of old ivory, those thin, finely-cut lips, indicative of diabolical craft, could she but read aright, those unfathomable eyes, touched her fancy as it had never yet been touched, awoke within her that latent vein of romance, self-abnegation, supreme foolishness, which lurks in the nature of every woman, be she chaste as ice and pure as snow.

There was no doubt in his mind about that, although he could hardly see the man's face in the shadowy corridor.

The old man crept along stealthily, looking back, with a face full of cunning, till he came to a broad landing, from which an old staircase, with massive oak banisters, led down to the square hall below.

But they are hers nowyes, my dear, they are yoursbecause you spoke sweetly, and smiled prettily, and were very good to a lonely old manand because you have my mother's face, dear, a smile that recalls the days of my youth.

A frightful change came over the old man's face at this determined refusal.

But when she was in her own room, his face came back to her, a pale shade out of dark shadow, and she saw the hollows about his deep blue eyes, his thin, bluish temples, his transparent features, and his emaciated throat, that seemed to have fallen away under his white ears.

" Veronica said nothing, but it was long before she got to sleep that night, and the vision of his face came again and again to her, pale, haggard, haunting, distressing her exceedingly.

"I am glad that you are here," she said simply, looking into his face.

You should have seen her face!

You should have seen your face!

The dream-driven ghost of her dead betrothed was ten times more human and real than Gianluca was to her now, with his white angel's face and misty hands that seemed to hang weightless in the air before him when he moved them.

Sometimes there was a little colour in his face, and often the deep blue light came into his beautiful eyes.

Taquisara did not look again, but presently he went in, and there was less of unconcern in his handsome bronze face that day, and his dark eyes were harder and colder than they were wont to be.

"You would rather not see uswe will not do it," said Veronica, gently, bending a little to see his face, as she stood near him.

As for Taquisara, he was glad when she drew back, took her mask from her face, and said that it was enough.

Then, seeing that the moment had come, and that she must face it with truth or lie to him while he lived, she turned her face bravely towards him, to tell him all her heart.

As he lay in the deep chair, he turned his face from her, on the cushion, till she could not see his eyes, and then was quite still.

At last he turned his face very wearily and slowly on the brown silk cushion, and looked at her bent head.

Instantly she sprang to her feet beside him, and lifted his head, her face full of the horror that goes before the wave of pain for those one loves.

She watched his face with most intense anxiety.

A faint and tender light came into her face, so faint, so far reflected from an infinite somewhere, that only such eyes as his could have seen it.

the boy on the Reindeer called over to them, sitting down on the cabin and mopping his face after the exertion of hoisting the mainsail single-handed.

In the midst of this task Joe glanced at the firm-name, gilt-lettered on the face of it, and read: "Bronson & Tate."

The denial of crimes, by men accused of them, goes for nothing as evidence in all civilized courts; while the voluntary confession of them, is the best evidence possible, as it is testimony against themselves, and in the face of the strongest motives to conceal the truth.